Robert David Reed (born October 9, 1956, in Omaha, Nebraska) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Reed is an "extraordinarily prolific" genre short-fiction writer with "Alone" being his 200th professional sale. His work regularly appears in Asimov's, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Sci Fiction. He has also published eleven novels. , Reed lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and daughter.
Awards "Mudpuppies" (1986) (First Writers of the Future Grand Prize winner) la Voie terrestre (1994), the French translation of Down the Bright Way (1991) (Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for foreign novel) "Decency" (1996) (Asimov's Science Fiction reader poll, short story) "Marrow" (1997) (Science Fiction Age reader poll, novella) "She Sees My Monsters Now" (2002) (Asimov's Science Fiction reader poll, short story) "A Billion Eves" (2006): Hugo Award for Best Novella, 2007
He was nominated for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in Science Fiction in 1987.
Bibliography
Marrow / Great Ship Series Marrow (2000) The Well of Stars (2004) The Greatship (2013) (collection) The Memory of Sky (2014) The Dragons of Marrow (2018) Hammerwing (2023)
Novels The Leeshore (1987) The Hormone Jungle (1987) Black milk (1989) Down the Bright Way (1991). Review by Jo Walton. The Remarkables (1992) Beyond the Veil of Stars (1994) An Exaltation of Larks (1995) Beneath the Gated Sky (1997) Sister Alice (2003)
Collections The Dragons of Springplace (1999) Chrysalide (2002) (French-language translations) The Cuckoo's Boys (2005)
Chapbooks Mere (2004) (Set in the world of the Great Ship/Marrow) Flavors of My Genius (2006)
Stories 1989 "Totipotent" 1990 "Chaff" [Lc1991 n] "Bushwhacker" "The Utility Man" [Hu1991 n] [Lc1991 n] 1991 "Pipes" [Lc1992 n] 1992 "After All" "Birth Day" "Burger Love" "Coffins" 1993 "On the Brink of that Bright New World" "Do I Know You?" "Blind" "Guest of Honor" "The Toad of Heaven" "Migration Patterns" "Fable Blue" "Sister Alice" [Ar1994 n] [Hu1994 x] [Lc1994 n] "To Know Each Other All the Better" 1994 "The Remoras" "The Shape of Everything" "Stride" [Hu1995 x] [Lc1995 n] "The Dimensions of the Deed" "Waging Good" [Ar1996 n] [Hu1996 x] [Lc1996 n] 1995 "Dreams from a Severed Heart" "We Are All Superheroes" "A Place With Shade" "At the 'Me' Shop" "Our Prayers Are With You" "Worthy" "Brother Perfect" "The Tournament" "Aeon's Child" "Mrs. Greasy" "The Myrtle Man" "Tongues" [Ar1996 n] 1996 "Killing the Morrow" [Hu1997 x] "The Apollo Man" "First Tuesday" [Lc1997 n] "Little Miss Trashcan" "Water Colors" "Decency" [Ar1997] [Sc1997 n] [Hu1997 n] [Lc1997 x] "334 Manchester Lane" "Once Green" "Chrysalis" [Ar1997 n] [Hu1997 x] [Lc1997 x] [Ne1997 x] 1997 "Blooming Ice" [Lc1998 n] "The Dragons of Springplace" [Lc1998 n] "Graffiti" "Marrow" [Hu1998 n] [Lc1998 n] "Goo Fish" "Mind's Eye" "To Church with Mr. Multhiford" 1998 "Mother Death" [Ar1999 x] [Lc1999 n] "Savior" [Lc1999 n] "The Cuckoo's Boys" [Lc1999 n] "Whiptail" [Hu1999 n] [Lc1999 x] [Tp1998 x] "Building the Building of the World" [Ar1999 n] [Hm1998 x] "The New System" 1999 "Will Be" "Mac and Me" "The Challenger" "Game of the Century" [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n] "Human Bay" [Ar2000 n] [Lc2000 n] [Wf2000 x] "Baby's Fire" [Ar2000 n] [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n] "Winemaster" [Lc2000 x] [Su2000 x] "Nodaway" [Hu2000 x] [Lc2000 n] "What It Is" "At the Corner of Darwin and Eternity" [Lc2000 x] "Apothecary Blue" 2000 "Due" "Frank" [Lc2001 x] "Grandma's Jumpman" [Lc2001 x] "The Prophet Ugly" [Lc2001 n] "Two Sams" "In the Valley of the Thunder Quail" "When It Ends" [Ar2001 x] "Birdy Girl" [Lc2001 x] (available online) "Father to the Man" [Ar2001 x] "The Gulf" [Lc2001 n] 2001 "Mirror" [Hu2002 x] [Lc2002 n] "Past Imperfect" "Hero" "Sparks" "One Last Game" [Lc2002 x] "The Boy" [Lc2002 n] "Raven Dream" [Lc2002 x] 2002 "Oracles" [Ar2003 n] "Coelacanths" [Su2003 x] "The Children's Crusade" [Lc2003 n] (available online) "Trouble Is" "She Sees My Monsters Now" [Ar2003] [Lc2003 n] "Veritas" [Ar2003 x] [Lc2003 n] "Melodies Played upon Cold, Dark Worlds" (available online) "The Majesty of Angels" "The Sleeping Woman" "Lying to Dogs" [Ar2003 n] [Lc2003 n] 2003 "Rejection" "Buffalo Wolf" "Aux sources du génie" ("The Wellsprings of Creation") Only published in French translation. "555" "Night of Time" "Hexagons" (available online) "Like, Need, Deserve" (available online) "Like Minds" 2004 "River of the Queen" "A Plague of Life" "Wealth" "How it Feels" "Daily Reports" "The Condor's Green-Eyed Child" "Designing With Souls" Mere "Opal Ball" "A Change of Mind" "The Dragons of Summer Gulch" (available online) 2005 "From Above" "Hidden Paradise" (available online) "Veterans of the War" "Dallas: An Essay" "The New Deity" "Poet Snow" "Camouflage" "Think So?" "Pure Vision" "Finished" "Abducted Souls" "The Cure" "Man for the Job" (available online) 2006 "Less Than Nothing" "Good Mountain" "Intolerance"Fifty Dinosaurs "Starbuck" "Rwanda" "Show Me Yours" "Misjudgement Day" "A Billion Eves" "Plausible" "Pills Forever" 2007 "Eight Episodes" (available narrated online) "X-Country" "Magic with Thirteen-Year-Old Boys" "Roxie" 2008 "The Man With the Golden Balloon" "Fifty Dinosaurs" "Five Thrillers" "The House Left Empty" "Reunion" "Weapons of Discretion" "Character Flu" "Blackbird" "Old Man Waiting" "Six Foot Easy" "Truth" "Floating Over Time" "American Cheetah" "Leave" "Dewey Smith and the Meaning of All" "A Woman's Best Friend" 2010 "Alone" (65 pgs.; a "Great Ship" work) "A History of Terraforming"
TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedNotesThe armistice1986The bird looking in1988Mudpuppies1986Treading in the afterglow1986Aeries1987Goodness1988Oort Cloud1989Busybody1990Treasure buried1994NoveletteHybrid2000NoveletteCrooked Creek2001Market Day2001Season to taste2001Salad for two2008The visionaries2008NoveletteFirehorn2009NoveletteMantis2010The long retreat2010The ants of Flanders : a tale of five adventures2011NovellaSwingers2011Noumenon2012The pipes of Pan2012The Golden Age of Story2013Precious mental2013NovellaThe principles2014NovellaBlood wedding2014NoveletteThe Cryptic Age2014Novelette The Great ShipWhat I intend2015
Nonfiction "Read This" in The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 1992. "Improbable Journeys" (2004), the afterword to Mere, which detailed the development of the stories set in the Marrow universe. "Afterword" to The Cuckoo's Boys, a short fiction collection.
References Sites of more general interest that were used as references are listed in the "External links" section.
The Locus Index to Science Fiction Robert Reed at The Locus Index to Science Fiction Awards Hugo Awards 2007 at the World Science Fiction Society's official Hugo Awards site The Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award official page at the website of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction
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External links Amazon Author Page Robert Reed's online fiction Fantastic Fiction Author Page April 1998 interview in Locus October 2003 interview in Science Fiction Weekly Nebraska Center for Writers Story behind Marrow — Online Essay at Upcoming4.me